Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to create [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |
| 2 | From the seventeenth century onwards , attempts were made to create artificial pools with trapping systems , but it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that ideas became at all sophisticated . |
| 3 | Throughout the 1970s the leitmotif of Community activity had been that of ‘ harmonisation ’ ; national frontiers and barriers to trade would subside as detailed legislation on subjects as varied as car parts , pasta , animal fodder and professional training , were enacted to create common Community standards leading to a united economic market . |
| 4 | To overcome this the ministries themselves were forced to create functional interest groups , such as farmers organizations , development associations and educational groups to channel political demands into the appropriate ministries . |
| 5 | Adoption was intended to create new family relationships not change those which already existed and joint custody was introduced as an alternative and to give some legal recognition to step-parents . |
| 6 | Marshall aid was intended to create European stability by 1952 , making further aid unnecessary . |
| 7 | They are cases in which a promise was made which was intended to create legal relations and which , to the knowledge of the person making the promise , was going to be acted on by the person to whom it was made , and which was in fact so acted on . |
| 8 | Wella High Hair Bolumising Mousse was applied to create soft curls . |
| 9 | Throughout the alliance the will was lacking to create conventional forces on the scale needed to balance those of the Eastern bloc . |
| 10 | Numbers had been revived but no Head Girl was allowed to create new ones . |
| 11 | I , I , I think they probably believed that , that , that the best way to get into socialism was to begin to create socialist elements from the start , that would facilitate the move erm and once you 'd got full control , I mean this is where , where there might be kind of bits you can say that once , once we , we need to make these assurances to get us out of feudalism . |